HEATH LEDGER

Since it was born, Heath already was predestined to

enter the world of the interpretation. And it is that Heath
comes from squally Heathcliff, the name of the
protagonist of Emily Bronte's novel, Summit.

In the institute it was standing out for his aptitude for

the sports, especially the hockey, but touched more by
the idea of being an actor, it stopped playing to form a
part of the theatrical company Globe Shakespeare
Company.

In 1999 it gave the great jump in his career and

travelled to the American continent. His first movie was
10 reasons to hate yourself, a version teen of The
fierecilla tamed of Shakespeare, who obtained a great
box-office success. With this paper, Heath and his
companion of distribution, Julia Stiles, turned into new
idols for teenagers.
Family and personal life

Heath Ledger was born on April 4, 1979, in Perth, Western

Australia, son of Sally Ledger Bell, a Frenchman's teacher,
and Kim Ledger, a motorist and engineer, whose family
established and directed the company Ledger Engineering
Foundry. [26 [27] [28]] The foundation of charity Sir Frank
Ledger was created in honor to his great-grandfather. [26]
Ledger Mary's Mount was present at the Primary School, in
Gooseberry Hill, [29 [30]] and later the Guildford Grammar
School, where, ten years after age, it had his first experience
as actor interpreting Peter Pan in a school production. [6 [26]]
His parents separated the same year and were divorced on
the following year. [31] The major sister of Ledger, Kate,
actress and later publicist, with whom it was removing very
well, breathed it to turn into actor.

CAREER
Decade of 1990
After approving his examinations of graduation sixteen years
after age, Ledger left the school to devote itself to the action.
[31] Together with Trevor DiCarlo, his best friend since they
had three years of age, he drove across Australia from Perth
up to Sídney, returning to his natal city to realize a small
paper in Clowning Around (1992), the first part of a movie for
television in two parts, and to be employed at the series of
television Sweat (1996), where it personified a homosexual
cyclist. [26] From 1993 until 1997, Ledger also was employed
at the television series of Perth Ship to Shore (1993); in the
dramatic series of Fox Broadcasting's short duration qualified
Company Roar (1997); in Home and Away (1997), one of the
most successful television programs of Australia.

Decade of 2000
From 2000 until 2005, it realized several papers as actor of
distribution. The most notable were like Gabriel Martin, the
major son of Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), in The Patriot
(2000), and as Sonny Grotowski, the son of Hank Grotowski
(Billy Bob Thornton), in Monster's Ball (2000). Also it had
leading papers, in To Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers
(2002), The Order (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Casanova
(2005), The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Lords of Dogtown
(2005). In 2001 it gained a Prize ShoWest in the category "
Estrella Masculina of the Tomorrow ".
Ledger got the prizes to the best actor of 2005 so much of the
Critics' Circle of Cinema of New York as of the Critics' Circle
of Cinema of San Francisco for his action in Brokeback
Mountain, in which it interpreted

PRIZES
Ledger obtained an Oscar, a Globe of Gold, a BAFTA and a
prize of the Actors' Union for his paper in The Dark Knight.
Oscar was nominated to the prize to the best principal actor
by the movie Brokeback Mountain
Movies
Principal article: Heath Ledger's Movies
1992: Clowning Around.
1997: Blackrock.
1997: Paws.
1999: Two Hands.
1999: 10 Things I Hate About You.
2000: The Patriot.
2001: Monster's Ball.
2001: To Knight's Tale.
2002: The Four Feathers.
2003: The Order.
2003: Ned Kelly.
2005: Casanova.
2005: The Brothers Grimm.
2005: Lords of Dogtown.
2005 Brokeback Mountain.
2006: Candy.
2007: I'm Not There.
2008: The Dark Knight.
2009: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus